Inside a Day With AI Tutor Rocky: Socratic Dialogue, Whiteboards and Spaced Repetition
RachelVT42 · x · 2026-10-03
Eliana Goldin walks through a full session with her AI tutor Rocky: when a kid gets stuck on math, Rocky refuses to give the answer and asks smaller questions instead (Socratic dialogue). If still stuck, it states the rule and draws it on a whiteboard, then can even generate an interactive widget the kid manipulates like clay to internalize the concept. Afterwards, the AI reviews everything the student did, identifies underlying gaps, and builds the next day's practice around them — all mapped to a mastery graph and hooked into a spaced repetition algorithm. Commenters argue this should become the norm at scale, replacing the default education system.
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